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Birthing a Movement - Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care (Paperback)
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Birthing a Movement - Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care (Paperback)
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Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of
women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and
work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of
state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity.
In Birthing a Movement, Renee Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of
ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of
law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care. Framed by
gripping narratives from midwives across the country, she parses
out the often-paradoxical priorities with which they must
engage-seeking formal professionalization, advocating for
reproductive justice, and resisting state-centered approaches.
Currently, professional midwives are legal and regulated in their
practice in 32 states and illegal in eight, where their practice
could bring felony convictions and penalties that include
imprisonment. In the remaining ten states, Certified Professional
Midwives (CPMs) are unregulated, but nominally legal. By studying
states where CPMs have differing legal statuses, Cramer makes the
case that midwives and their clients engage in various forms of
mobilization-at times simultaneous, and at times inconsistent-to
facilitate access to care, autonomy in childbirth, and the
articulation of women's authority in reproduction. This book brings
together literatures not frequently in conversation with one
another, on regulation, mobilization, health policy, and gender,
offering a multifaceted view of the experiences and politics of
American midwifery, and promising rich insights to a wide array of
scholars, activists, healthcare professionals alike.
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